Senior Software Product Manager

About the Team

Anduril Australia's Dive-XL Platform team is building the software and systems that define how an extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle operates, navigates, and executes missions. The Platform pillar is responsible for the full vehicle stack, from embedded vehicle management and safe navigation through to the mission software layer that determines what the vehicle does, how it communicates, and how operators interact with it.

This role sits at the centre of how Dive-XL's software capabilities are shaped and delivered. You will work closely with stakeholders across Dive-XL Platform engineering, Maritime Enabling Technology, Maritime Application Development, and Program teams to drive product design, particularly around the software features delivered on the mission software layer. A key objective is championing operator experience for Dive-XL, translating operational needs into well-defined software requirements, and ensuring what gets built delivers real capability to the people who use these systems. If you want to own the "what" and the "why" for software on a platform that is actively deployed and scaling, this is the role.

About the Job

Software Product Managers develop a detailed understanding of user, customer, and business needs, define what to build, why to build it, then independently lead projects to integrate those software capabilities with our products. This includes autonomy, simulation, data processing, payload integration, and off-board command and control or decision support. We expect Software Product Managers to demonstrate end-to-end outcome ownership of one or more significant projects or products, driving work through our engineering governance process, co-ordinating and directly contributing to project execution, and managing adoption of the solution by internal and external customers. Our Software Product Managers will also provide tactical subject matter expertise to cross-functional engineering teams as required.

What You’ll Do

• Empathize with end-users and drive solutions that balance their needs with external constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
• Be the voice of the user by developing informed empathy for end-users in the context of one or more steps in the lifecycle of un-crewed systems
• Advocate for Software Product Management within the teams you interact with. Support Software Engineers and Managers to develop empathy themselves by coaching user research best practices. Support senior leaders to develop empathy via guiding direct usage
• Be an expert on the existing and future planned product capabilities for your products
• Articulate detailed written product requirements for your area of focus, at different levels of product maturity, informed by your understanding of user, customer and business needs and constraints, existing solutions, and technical architecture
• Hold a high bar for visual design and information architecture, providing valuable input within a collaborative multi-stakeholder environment that includes Software Product Designers, Software Engineers, Systems Engineers, and Engineering Managers
• Manage a 6 - 18 month roadmap for your allocated projects
• Define, document, gain consensus for, and communicate appropriate goals and plans for your projects, derived from broader organizational vision, strategy, and priorities
• Co-ordinate your project(s) roadmap and execution with other teams across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines
• Be responsible for co-ordinating and directly contributing to execution on one or more Software Engineering projects from definition through to delivery, optimizing for the delivery of value to the end-user
• Drive work through Anduril’s engineering governance process, working with your teams to present plans and designs to internal stakeholders
• Manage programmatic risk for your projects, and collaborate with engineers to manage technical risk, including sound and timely decision making
• Work as a leader of multi-disciplinary project teams of 4 - 10 members across team boundaries
• Collaborate with internal and external customer teams to drive adoption of your delivered software solutions
• Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
• Extensive professional experience working as a Software Product Manager with one or more domains of expertise
• Capacity to act as the owner for a software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation management, sustainment and evolution
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
• Experience leading the design and execution of user engagement and research studies
• Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the delivery or employment of a military mission system and/or autonomous vehicle
• Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies
• Experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics
• Experience with the design, implementation, roll-out, and evolution of user-facing front-end applications
• Experience with the development of high assurance safety critical software, including with DO-178, IEC 61508, or similar standards
• Experience with the development of modeling and simulation capabilities
• Desire to learn and grow into other roles that require experience as a Senior Software Product Manager, such as Staff Software Product Manager